Vienna 03/31/2025
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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) – American officer, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces, twice elected President of the United States after the war. He was nicknamed “Ike”. Source. He was President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 and was succeeded by John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in November 1963.
I found this speech at the end of the presidency on Eisenhower’s website. Why did I find the late US President’s speech important after 64 years?
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
As President of the United States, he knew very well what he was talking about, a threat so obvious today that at the time was only seen by those close to the presidential administration. Two months into Eisenhower’s presidency, the “sunshine of nations”, a certain Stalin, died. This made it possible to initiate a thaw between the United States and the USSR.
This thaw was not so easy, considering the US role in the overthrow of the democratically elected pro-Moscow Iranian President Mohammad Mossadegh in August 1953. Today we would hear that this was necessary in defense of democracy. In reality, it was in defense of the interests of American and British oil companies. Does this not remind us of the situation in Romania, which began four months ago? Although the Romanian oil fields do not play a major role, the seizure of power by anti-war forces in a country bordering Ukraine was decisive.
The shooting down of a US Lockheed U-2 spy plane over the USSR in May 1960 and the arrest of the US Air Force pilot by Russian services also severely cooled the not exactly warm US-Soviet relations.
This is not a sign of weakness, but an expression of maturity and personal growth.
I think readers will be interested in the person of John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State in the Eisenhower administration.
After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Dulles’s previous practice brokering and documenting international loans ended. After 1931 Germany stopped making some of its scheduled payments. In 1934 Germany unilaterally stopped payments on private debts of the sort that Dulles was handling. After the Nazi Party came to power, Dulles expressed sympathies for Adolf Hitler, requiring his legal staff in Berlin to sign “Heil Hitler” on all of Sullivan & Cromwell’s outgoing mail; fearful of the optics, Sullivan & Cromwell’s junior partners forced Dulles to cut all business ties with Germany in 1935. Nonetheless, Dulles and his wife continued to visit Germany until 1939. He was prominent in the religious peace movement and an isolationist, but the junior partners were led by his brother Allen, so he reluctantly acceded to their wishes. Source.
The Wikipedia articles on Dulles are also available in Polish and German. The German article presents Dulles as an opponent of Hitler, while the Polish article completely ignores this topic.
Eisenhower took part in the Normandy invasion during the Second World War. In December 1944, he was promoted to the rank of General of the US Army.
Source.
“Collect the evidence, because the day will come when some bastard will say it never happened.”
Gen. D. D. Eisenhower.
Author of the article: Marek Wojcik
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